Dear Colleagues, We write to inform you of changes to our pension plans. Sadly, at a time when our salaries stagnate or decline in real terms and our health benefit costs have sky-rocketed, our pension plans are now also being revised with very little warning or explanation of their ramifications. The changes have variable effects. […]
Category: faculty compensation
UC Patent Amendment: To Sign or Not to Sign?
On December 1st, a University-wide email was sent out by VR Election Services on behalf of the University of California, demanding us to follow a link and sign our names to a Patent Amendment to the 1997 UC Patent Agreement. The email informs us that our signature is required; to drive the point home, the […]
Results from the 2011 SDFA Faculty Survey
In September 2011, the SDFA conducted an attitudinal survey of its membership over several issues relevant to the UCSD faculty. The survey was emailed to 108 members and 55 replied, yielding a response rate of 51%. To protect the anonymity of respondents, personal identifying information was not collected, so it is not possible to break […]
SDFA Supports the CSU Dominguez Hills and CSU Easy Bay Strikes
Statement in Support of striking colleagues at CSU Dominguez Hills and East Bay The California Faculty Association, which represents over 20,000 tenure-track and contingent faculty at 23 California State University campuses, will stage one-day strikes at CSU East Bay and CSU Dominguez Hills on November 17. The San Diego Faculty Association, a chapter of the […]
Einstein (brings in grant money!) vs Aristotle (what, no grant money?): which one would you hire (or fire)?
by Ivan Evans, President, UCSD Faculty Association Faculty at UC have long been painfully aware that their salaries lag behind pay scales at “comparable universities” across the country. And so UCOP came up with a remedy: the off-scale salary, which more than 2/3 of UC faculty now earn. The off-scale solution aims to retain faculty […]